Cooking with **** - Live Fish and Live Snake

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mangobreeder said:
KaHn is right, we are we to question another culture? Decide what is right and what is wrong.
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As far as I'm concerned somethings wrong if it's causing suffering. Not quite sure what them being another culture has to do with anything. Would you consider ritual killings and rape as ok because it's "their culture"? Whether something is part of a culture or not is irrelevant to the argument of it being right or wrong, I fail to see how people fail to grasp this simple logical concept.
 
:( waste of a vietnamese blue beauty (thats what kind of snakes they're chopping up there)

Just their culture I guess. Theres miles and miles of difference between our culture and theirs. I would have prefered to se them cut the head in one movement, instead of getting half way through, then chopping it again. The snakes tounge flicks after the first strike.


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the fish on the other hand... is there any need? really?
 
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I've seen all sorts of horrific animal cruelty on video so nothing really phases me (though I've seen a video of a guy smashing a dog to death with a brick - the sound of a dog actually screaming will stay with me forever), but while the snake was fine I thought doing that to the fish was a little too far/unethical from a culinary/professional standpoint.

Scaling it alive then slicing it like that? There really is no need - at least remove the head first.
 
I was under the impression that fish don't have a central nervous system and so cannot "feel" pain. At least that was the reason an ex "veggie" gf gave me when I asked why she ate fish.

I suppose this would be the wrong time to post the recipe for cooking a goose alive I have from an old medieval cookbook? :p
 
Gog said:
I was under the impression that fish don't have a central nervous system and so cannot "feel" pain. At least that was the reason an ex "veggie" gf gave me when I asked why she ate fish.

I suppose this would be the wrong time to post the recipe for cooking a goose alive I have from an old medieval cookbook? :p
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The brain and spinal cord is the central nervous system.
 
mangobreeder said:
KaHn is right, we are we to question another culture? Decide what is right and what is wrong.

Im sure Hindus are offened by soem steak threads on here, but whoa re they to jude us the same way we are judging the chinese.
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True, but then you could say that about every culture in the world. In the long run, as humans where do you draw the line. The problem i see with being a meat eater is everything i eat has to die so why does it matter why or how, or do you subscribe to the if it must die in the name of a meal then it must only do so by humane means.

Difficult choice.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Or perhaps you and many others are so brainwashed by the media. you can't see killing animals is natural and essential. It's good posts like these are made. it brings a tiny bit of balance back.
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Don't know about that.

Fair enough people seeing what killing an animal looks like but I don't get how you or any of the other self-styled alphas seem to think you're in some way more connected to reality.

Anyone can watch a video of a animal having its head cut off. It doesn't suddenly make you all tough and hardened and 'real'.

And no, people aren't brainwashed by the media. Its just that they happen to not actively search for stuff like this. Slightly different.
 
ermmmm....ye. Sooo its the "try to cook and keep it alive" game...how very pointless and slightly disturbing...
 
Raymond Lin said:
I know the chinese like their food fresh, but that is taking it to a whole new level. I am used to buying chicken, fish and what not from the market where it is kept alive until you buy it, then it is killed instantly and then you take it home to cook it that day. You can literally can have a live chicken, killed and to your oven inside 30 mins if you live close enough to the market.
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I wish the two geese I bought for Christmas were killed instantly. They cut the geeses throats, and left them to bleed to death in an empty barrel. The sound they were making was terrible. Then they managed to kick over the barrel and were stumbling over the pavement, before the store keepers picked them up and submerged them into another barrel of boiling water. Made it pretty tough to eat on Christmas day, and I couldn't tell my other western friends until we had finished.
 
Energize said:
Whether something is part of a culture or not is irrelevant to the argument of it being right or wrong, I fail to see how people fail to grasp this simple logical concept.
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Something being part of culture is Central to if something is right or wrong.

Who decides what right or wrong?

For example, Hindus belive eating beef is fundamentally wrong, where as we would not bat an eyelid.

Whos right? who decides whats right or wrong?

its not as simple as you make out.
 
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